It's Official: My Brother Died in Vain

[Indie Media Magazine]

After two years, the government has called off its fruitless hunt for WMD.

By Dante Zappala

01/14/05 "Los Angeles Times" -- This week, the White House announced, with little fanfare, that the two-year search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq had finally ended, and it acknowledged that no such weapons existed there at the time of the U.S. invasion in 2003.

For many, this may be a story of only passing interest. But for me and my family, it resonates with profound depth.

It's Official: My Brother Died in Vain

[mark414]

1. may these fuckers burn in hell

they have committed crimes against humanity and have created thousands of stories like this one

what is wrong with this country

[Indie Media Magazine]

2. Well, at least 51% of this country is fuct in the head!

That much we know for sure. The rest are all right tho. ;)

[genieroze]

3. * should be impeached for this. eom

[ugarte]

4. So many young lives utterly wasted

for nothing but a lie.

[imenja]

5. delete

delete

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Here's a letter to the editor addressing Zappala's piece

Editor:

"It's Official: My Brother Died in Vain," Commentary, Jan. 14: Though Dante Zappala's grief is warranted, his indictment of our leadership isn't. Our president, former president, Congress and Democratic presidential candidate all supported the invasion of Iraq for a handful of reasons, weapons of mass destruction being only one.

The result? A monstrous dictator is overthrown; a democracy is created; millions of lives have been released from a regime. No, Mr. Zappala, your brother did not die in vain.

Joe Dallas

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So shut the f*ck up, whiner!

[The Zanti Regent]

7. My only child died in vain, too.

Bush and his Bonesman buddy Kerry can go to hell.

[Indie Media Magazine]

8. What is the story behind this?

Did your child die in Iraq?

[The Zanti Regent]

10. He took a bullet that cut his spinal cord

and it killed him last Thanksgiving.

He lay in agony for months. Now I have nothing left. Bush and Kerry tore my heart out. Whatever belief I had left is gone, I see that Jesusland has overthrown America and I'm working for California to secede from Jesusland

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. sad kick

[Stockholm]

11. My deepest condolences...

As Rudyard Kipling wrote in the voice of his son John who died at Somme, age sixteen.

"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied."